The Data on Diversity | Communications of the ACM (November 2014 issue): “Diverse teams are more effective: they produce better financial results and better results in innovation. These results show that having a diverse organization is a business imperative.”

Your groundbreaking is not my groundbreaking | N.K. Jemisin (November 25): “I’m pretty sure nobody in the planning meetings for this game went Muahahaha, now we can really stick it to those curly-haired, dark-skinned people!* I think they just started from a completely different set of assumptions about what is “normal”, than… well, what actually is normal to a lot of people. And those assumptions have skewed the whole bell curve of the game.”

My Magical Experience at Geek Girl Con | Black Girl Nerds (November 19): “This is why conventions like this exist. It is to illustrate in such a magical way that you are not the only Black geek girl or queer geek girl, or fat geek girl, or disabled geek girl. There is a place for you in this community and you have friends and fellow geekettes out there who are willing to support you and tell you that you need not to fear being a member of geekdom.”

No Title, by Marie Connelly | The Pastry Box Project (November 24): “When we talk about platforms, about social networks, we often focus primarily on the technology. Yet in my time as a community manager, I have found that community is rarely about the technology itself—a platform is nothing without the people who use it. And right now, we are losing people. We are losing people who have wisdom and insight and so much to share, because public participation on the web has become increasingly more dangerous.”

#Gamergate as a response to re-engineering: BPC as a conspiracy to change computing | Computing Ed (November 23): “We in the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) community are aiming to achieve a similar kind of social engineering that the Gamergate supporters are complaining about. I am part of a vast, international (though maybe not particularly well-organized) conspiracy to change computing culture and to invade computing with many women and members of under-represented groups. We are “actively plotting to influence” computing.“

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